NINTENDO LAUNCHES ANIMAL CROSSING PLAZA ON Wii U

7thAugust 2013 –Animal Crossingfans are getting a new place
onWii Uwhere they can talk about their
towns and share images with players from all over the world.
Nintendo announced the freeAnimal CrossingPlazaapplication during
today’sNintendo
Directpresentation. Nintendo also
discussed a variety of other topics about Wii U andNintendo
3DSgames, including the debut of
thePokémonseries on Wii U withPokémon Rumble Uand the story behindThe Legend of Zelda: A Link
Between Worldsfor Nintendo 3DS.

Animal CrossingPlaza: A new application on Wii U for
Animal Crossing fans is being made available for download
for free on Nintendo eShop today. The service will run through to
the end of 2014, and allows
Animal Crossing fans from around the world to meet,
interact and exchange information through the
Animal Crossing Miiverse community. Players can import
images they took in
Animal Crossing: New Leaf on Nintendo 3DS as well as
custom design QR Code patterns from their SD Cards, and organise
them in albums. Players also can post messages to Miiverse with
those images. The QR Code patterns posted can also be directly
scanned and used in
Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Players can select their
favourite animals in the
Animal Crossing Plaza to post about those specific animals
or view posts only about them. If players want to see more posts,
they can jump directly to the
Animal Crossing series Miiverse community from
Animal CrossingPlaza.

Pokémon Rumble U: As with previous instalments in
the
Pokémon Rumble series, players control toy versions
of Pokémon. Players can play as, and do battle against,
every one of the 649 Pokémon that have appeared in the video
games up to
Pokémon Black Version 2 and
Pokémon White Version 2. The game features a
special password system that allows users to unlock certain
Pokémon, and these will be shared on Nintendo’s
official
Facebook and
Twitter accounts, the game’s official
website, plus other channels.
Pokémon Rumble U launches exclusively on Nintendo
eShop on 15
th August.

Challenger Approaching!: Luigi has been confirmed as a playable
character in the upcoming
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Super Smash Bros. for
Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo is calling 2013 “
The Year of Luigi” due
to the high number of games that Mario’s brother is starring
in, such as
Luigi’s Mansion 2 for Nintendo 3DS and
New Super Luigi U for Wii U, and to celebrate the 30
th anniversary of Luigi’s first ever appearance in
a videogame.

Sonic Lost World from SEGA: Launching for both Wii U and Nintendo 3DS on 18
th October, the game features radio controlled gadgets
which can be created and customised on the Nintendo 3DS version of
the game, and sent to the Wii U version for use in cooperative
multiplayer mode. Use these gadgets to destroy enemies, collect
items and more!

Rayman Legends from Ubisoft: Even Rayman likes to cosplay! The Wii U version
of the game not only assigns a different role to the player using
the Wii U GamePad in multiplayer, it also includes a special bonus:
players will be able to unlock a Mario costume for Rayman and a
Luigi costume for Globox. Players on the Wii U version will also be
able to unlock many of the stages from the previously released
Rayman Origins game. Rayman Legends launches 29
th August.

Art Academy: SketchPad: This application, headed to
Nintendo eShop on 9
th August, utilises features from an upcoming edition of
the
Art Academy series for Wii U to let users create original
artwork that can be posted directly to Miiverse.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind
Waker HD: This reinvented HD version of the Nintendo
GameCube classic features several adjustments that enhance the
overall play experience, such as faster sailing. The game launches
on 4
th October.

The Wonderful 101: Stay tuned! A special instalment of Nintendo Direct
dedicated to
The Wonderful 101 is coming at 16:00 CEST on 9
th August. The game launches in stores and on Nintendo
eShop on 23
rd August.

A newly released trailer showcased a range of games headed to
Nintendo eShop on Wii U, highlighting titles in a range of
different genres from independent developers in Europe and
Australia.

Nintendo 3DS News

Layton-mania: The last game in the second Professor Layton
trilogy, Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy, will launch on 8
th November. Early in 2014, Professor Layton will
feature in a new crossover adventure co-starring Capcom’s
Phoenix Wright in
Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link
Between Worlds: The game’s logo represents one of
its key plot points: Link will undergo a new adventure across two
worlds. In one world, the iconic Triforce exists, while the shadowy
Triforce in the logo suggests the existence of another Triforce in
a different world from where Link lives. Taking place long after
the events of
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, some of the
game’s scenery will be familiar to fans of the series, while
its puzzles and dungeons are new.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds launches this
November.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf: Welcome a Friend Promotion:
Starting today, if you register Animal Crossing: New Leaf with Club
Nintendo by 7
th September, you’ll be able to receive a
Recommendation Code. You can then give this Recommendation Code to
a friend. If your friend registers a Nintendo 3DS XL between 7
th August and 7
th October, and enters this Recommendation Code, your
friend will be able to claim a free Download Code for
Animal Crossing: New Leaf on Nintendo 3DS.

KORG M01D: Based on the famous KORG M1 music workstation,
KORG M01D offers over 340 sounds to choose from, plus a powerful
sequencer to create your own songs and sounds, before saving them
as MIDI data to import to a digital audio workstation. KORG M01D
launches on Nintendo eShop this Autumn.

SteamWorld Dig: Set in a world run by robots, get ready
for a unique action platformer combining the visual styles of
westerns and steampunk when SteamWorld Dig arrives on Nintendo
eShop today.

Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan: This RPG from
Atlus releases on 30
th August.

Super Mario Bros. 2 arrives on Virtual Console: The
platforming classic
Super Mario Bros. 2 becomes available to download as a
Virtual Console title for Nintendo 3DS today. Its sequel,
Super Mario Bros.3, is headed for Nintendo eShop on both
Wii U and Nintendo 3DS later this year.

Summer Carnival ’92: RECCA: This notoriously
hard-to-find Famicom game was originally designed for a games
festival in Japan in the summer of 1992. It’s remembered as
being one of the most challenging shooters ever created, and while
it wasn’t featured in today’s Nintendo Direct
presentation, Nintendo of Europe can confirm it’s coming to
Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS on 15
th August.

Mario Golf:World Tour: While not featured in the Nintendo Direct EU
presentation, please note that this game will now be delayed,
launching in 2014.

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